The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-09-23

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after once you have entered" In othel
words. 1t Is easier for us to get into sir
than to get out Of it. Whiteflcld wa
riding on horseback in lonely way will
some missionary money in Il sack fast
ened to the saddle bags. A highwaymar
sprang out from the thicket and put hi
hand out toward the gold, when White
field turned upon him and said: "Thal
belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ, touch il
II you dare" and the villain fell back
empty handed into the thicket. o, the
power of conscience! If offended. it be.
comes Gods avenging minister. Do moi
think that you can hide any great and
protracted sin in your hearts. In an un-
guarded moment it will slip off of the lip,
or some slight occasion may for mo.
ment set ajar this door of hell that YOU
wanted to keep closed. But suppose that
in this life you hide it, and you get along
with that transgression burning in your
heart as ship on fire within for days
may hinder the flame from bursting out
by keeping down the hatchways, vet at
last, in the Judgment, that iniauity will
blaze out before the throne Of God and
the universe.
Furthermore, learn from this subject
the inseparable connection between all
events, however remote. Lord Hastings
was beheaded one year after he had
caused the death of the queens children,
in the very month, the very day, the very
hour and the very moment There is
wonderful precision in the divine judg-
ments. The universe is only one thought
of God. Those things which sec n frag-
mentary and isolated are only different
parts of that one great thought. How far
apart seemed these two events-Joseph
sold to the Arabian merchants and the
of Egypt. Yet you see in what
a mysterious way God connected the two
in one plan. So all events are linked to-
gether. You who are aged can look back
and group together thousand things in
your life that once seemed isolated. One
chain of events reached from
the Garden Of Eden to the cross of Cal
vary, and thus up to heaven. There is a
relation between the smallest insect that
huns in the summer air and the arch
angel on his throne. God can trace di-
rect ancestral line from the blue jay that
last spring built its nest in tree behind
the house to some one of that flock of
birds which, when Noah hoisted the arks
window, with whirl and dash of bright
wings went out to sing over Mount
Ararat. The tulips that doomed this
summer in the flower bed were nursed
of last winters snowflakes. The fur
thest star on one side the universe
could not look to the furthest star on
the other side and say: "You are no re-
lation to me-" for from that bright orb a
voice of light would ring across the
heavens responding: eyes, yes; we are
sisters.' Sir Sidney Smith in prison was
playing lawn tennis in the yard and the
ball flew over the WALL Another ball
letters was thrown back, and
80 communication was opened with the
outside world, and Sidney Smith escaped
IN time to defeat Bonaparte's Egyptian
expedition. What small accident con-
nected with what vast result! Sir Robert
Peel from pattern he drew on the
pack of pewter dinner plate got |
suggestions of that which led to the
invention by which calico
s printed. Nothing in Gods universe
wings at loose ends. Accidents are only
iod's way of turning a leaf in the book
It his eternal DEGREES. From our cradle |
o our grave there is path all marked
'ut. Each event in our life is connected |
With every other event in our life. Our
oss may be the most direct road to our
Jain. Our defeats and victories are twin
The whole direction of your
life was changed by something which at
he time seemed to you trifle, while
ONE occurrence which seemed tremen-
lous affected you but little. The Rev.
)r. Kennedy, Of Basking Ridge, N. j.,
vent into his pulpit one Sabbath and by
strange freak of memory forgot his
ubject and forgot his text, and in great
Embarrassment rose before his audience
nd announced the circumstance and de-
Jared himself entirely unable to preach;
hen launched forth in few earnest
words of entreaty and warning which re-
ulted in the outbreaking of the mightiest
evival of religion ever known in that
tate, a revival of religion that resulted in
hurches still standing and in the CONVEX
ion of large number of men who
iiSSAOu Vic OOopCA AulLlolIy WHO nave
rought their thousands into the king
ON of God. Gods plans are magnifi-
emit beyond all comprehension. He
holds us, turns and directs us, and we
now it not. Thousands of years are to
i'm but as the fight of a shuttle.
he most terrific occurrence does
OF make God tremble, and
ne most triumphant achievement does
OF lift him into rapture. That one
reat thought of God goes on through the
and nations rise and fall, and
ras pass, and the world itself changes,
ut God still keeps the undivided mas |
'ry, linking event to event and century
} century. To God they are all one
vent, one history, one plan, one develop
tent, one system. Great and marvel
us are thy works, Lord God Almighty.
Furthermore, we learn from this story
le propriety of laying up for the future.
uring seven years Of plenty Joseph pre-
ared for the famine, and when it came
, had a crowded storehouse. The life of
ost men in worldly respect is divided
to years of plenty and famine. It is
ldom that any man passes through life
ithout at least seven years of plenty.
uring these seven prosperous years your